A poodle on the runway caused multiple delays at an airport in Tokyo.
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A dog checked as cargo escaped his cage and caused multiple delays at an airport in Japan Monday.

The large poodle was in a special basket being loaded onto a Japan Airlines flight at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport when it escaped and ran toward the runway around 8:50 a.m., South China Morning Post reports.

This isn’t the first time a flight has been delayed for an unusual reason. Earlier this year a China Southern Airlines flight was stuck in Shanghai for five hours after an elderly woman threw coins into the engine for “good luck,” prompting an evacuation of all passengers and an inspection of the plane.